Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-14

  1. Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB matthew.science - 154 comments 487 points
  2. Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] www.youtube.com - 206 comments 441 points
  3. HTML Web Components blog.jim-nielsen.com - 195 comments 382 points
  4. Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration embracethered.com - 131 comments 333 points
  5. Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997) web.williams.edu - 232 comments 315 points
  6. Ship Shape www.canva.dev - 78 comments 299 points
  7. Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony apnews.com - 128 comments 273 points
  8. Starship will attempt a launch this Friday www.fly.faa.gov - 141 comments 268 points
  9. Don’t waste money on a math coprocessor they said virtuallyfun.com - 117 comments 259 points
  10. Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén’s ferrofluid synths cdm.link - 52 comments 240 points
  11. Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn’t be tied to funding the government www.eff.org - 48 comments 227 points
  12. Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs www.loro.dev - 34 comments 227 points
  13. Diamonds Suck diamondssuck.com - 157 comments 223 points
  14. A coder considers the waning days of the craft www.newyorker.com - 314 comments 213 points
  15. Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256 peergos.org - 115 comments 212 points
  16. Discouraging the use of web application firewalls www.macchaffee.com - 126 comments 207 points
  17. Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line fortune.com - 207 comments 196 points
  18. Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density jxnl.github.io - 31 comments 192 points
  19. Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal github.com - 74 comments 190 points
  20. Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD www.nexttv.com - 341 comments 189 points
  21. To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again spectrum.ieee.org - 128 comments 188 points
  22. Tragedy of return to hostile offices benjiweber.co.uk - 281 comments 158 points
  23. Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims arstechnica.com - 112 comments 153 points
  24. Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal arstechnica.com - 4 comments 152 points
  25. Google/IAC/Expedia (2019) www.techemails.com - 61 comments 135 points
  26. We’ve learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack www.macchaffee.com - 90 comments 134 points
  27. Researchers identify ‘switch’ to activate cancer cell death health.ucdavis.edu - 49 comments 128 points
  28. Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses www.gamesindustry.biz - 137 comments 124 points
  29. Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store techcrunch.com - 61 comments 122 points
  30. The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year gothamist.com - 144 comments 121 points